Ti piace ascoltare la musica rap in inglese, lasciarti trasportare dal flow e dal linguaggio irriverente e provocatorio? Se la risposta è sì, allora saprai anche che questo genere musicale si contraddistingue per testi ricchi di contenuto esplicito e di tipiche espressioni inglesi dello slang. Spesso si fa fatica a decifrare questi testi, ma allo stesso tempo sono le musiche sono orecchiabili e… irresistibili da canticchiare! In più se stai studiando l’inglese, questo genere musicale può essere di grande ispirazione, soprattutto per quanto riguarda le espressioni gergali!
Le espressioni inglesi in slang: imparale
on la musica rap!
Sai che alcune delle espressioni inglesi dello slang derivano da parole comunissime che, inserite in un certo contesto, significano tutt’altro? Scopriamo, quindi, assieme i significati nascosti di alcuni termini:
- Bread/cheese/cheddar/dough/bacon/paper/bills/benjamins: money
- 5-0/po-po: police
- Dime: a very attractive woman
- Roach: the end of a marijuana cigarette
- Blunt: a large, cigar-like, marijuana cigarette
- Ganja: marijuana
- Side chick: a girl that you are secretly dating in addition to your current girlfriend/wife
- OG: original gangster
- Crib: house/place of residence
- Grill: the mouth or face
- Grind/hustle:working hard to make money
- Beef: conflict
- Balling: to have wealth
- Whip: car
- Chill/chilling: relaxing
- YOLO: you only live once
- Brain: oral sex
- Bling: jewelry with diamonds
- Diss: disrespect
Musica rap in inglese: la canzone di Drake
La canzone qui sotto è di Drake, rapper, cantante, attore, cantautore e imprenditore canadese… conosciuto in tutto il mondo! Ha vinto anche diversi Grammy, American Music Awards e Billboard Music Awards. La sua canzone “The Motto” è stata nominata migliore canzone Rap al 55° Grammy Awards – nel 2013 ed è conosciuta soprattutto per aver reso popolare l’acronimo “YOLO” (You Only Live Once). Questo pezzo, oltre a includere alcune espressioni inglesi in slang viste sopra, presenta anche diversi acronimi e, in alcuni punti, una grammatica volutamente errata: ecco perché è così difficile capire i testi della musica rap in inglese!
The Motto by Drake featuring Lil Wayne and Tyga
[su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYDKK95cpfM”][/su_youtube] [Verse 1: Drake]I’m the fuckin’ man, y’all don’t get it, do ya?
Type of money, everybody actin’ like they knew ya
Go Uptown, New York City, bitch
Them Spanish girls love me like I’m Aventura
Tell Uncle Luke, “I’m out in Miami, too”
Clubbin’ hard, fuckin’ women, there ain’t much to do
Wrist bling, got a condo up in Biscayne
Still gettin’ brain from a thang, ain’t shit changed
How you feel how you feel how you feel?
25, sitting on 25 mill
I’m in the building and I’m feeling myself
Rest in peace, Mac Dre, I’m-a do it for the Bay
Okay, getting paid, we’ll holler whenever that stop
My team good, we don’t really need a mascot
Tell Tune, “Light one, pass it like a relay”
YMCMB, you niggas more YMCA
Me, Franny, and Mally Mall at the crib-o
Shout goes out to Niko, J and Chubbs, shouts to Gibbo
We got Santa Margherita by the liter
She know even if I’m fuckin’ with her, I don’t really need her, aw
That’s how you feel, man? That’s really how you feel?
Cause the pimpin’ ice cold, all these bitches wanna chill
I mean maybe she won’t but then again maybe she will
I can almost guarantee she know the deal, real nigga, what’s up?
[Chorus: Drake]Now she want a photo, you already know, though
You only live once: that’s the motto, nigga, YOLO
And we bout it every day, every day, every day
Like we sittin’ on the bench, nigga, we don’t really play
Every day, every day, fuck what anybody say
Can’t see ’em cause the money in the way, real nigga, what’s up?
[Verse 2: Lil Wayne]One time? Fuck one time
I’m calling niggas out like the umpire
Seven grams in the blunt
Almost drowned in her pussy so I swam to her butt
It’s Eastside, we in this bitch
Wish a nigga would, like a tree in this bitch
And if a leaf fall put some weed in that bitch
That’s my MO, add a B to that shit
I’m fucked up, tore down
I’m twisted, door knob
Talk stupid? Off with your head
Nigga, money talks, and Mr. Ed, yeah
I’m so Young Money
Got a drum on the gun, Energizer bunny
Funny how honey ain’t sweet like sugar
Ain’t shit sweet, niggas on the street like hookers
I tongue kiss her other tongue
Skeet, skeet, skeet, water gun
Oh my God, Becky, look at her butt, Tunechi!
[Chorus: Drake]Now she want a photo, you already know, though
You only live once: that’s the motto, nigga, YOLO
And we bout it every day, every day, every day
Like we sittin’ on the bench, nigga, we don’t really play
Every day, every day, fuck what anybody say
Can’t see ’em cause the money in the way, real nigga, what’s up?
[Verse 3: Tyga]T-Raww, skinny nigga, big balls
Fuck around and get dragged: RuPaul
You funny little nigga, Duval
Out of this world, Total Recall
Call a bitch, ride dick like a seesaw
Sorta like a donkey, act a ass nigga hee-haw
Ridin round in the ‘rarri wit the top off
While you in the window, man I’m probably on my next car
Aight, mighty duck with the ice on
Real LA nigga, chucks with the gun drawn
Drawing on your face you’re a clown jack in the box
Boy that’s your bop, she my new pum pum star
[Chorus: Drake]Now she want a photo, you already know, though
You only live once: that’s the motto, nigga, YOLO
And we bout it every day, every day, every day
Like we sittin’ on the bench, nigga, we don’t really play
Every day, every day, fuck what anybody say
Can’t see ’em cause the money in the way, real nigga, what’s up?
Come avrai capito, il linguaggio della musica rap in inglese non è né facile né immediato da comprendere; un po’ come i modi di dire e i proverbi in inglese: le espressioni gergali e del linguaggio comune, seppur difficili, sono comunque un ottimo modo per migliorare la capacità di comprensione della lingua. Ovviamente questo metodo da solo non basta per capire e conoscere le espressioni inglesi dello slang: un corso di inglese è un buon punto di partenza. Poi il resto sta a te: impegno, curiosità e costanza sono i fattori determinanti per progredire davvero!
